A poem by Richard Brautigan

1. Get enough food to eat,
   and eat it.

2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
   and sleep there.

3. Reduce intellectual activity and emotional noise
   until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
   and listen to it.

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Source: http://www.brautigan.net/machines.html#27
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